Washington Post calls Obama “silly”

Yeah, I could hardly believe it either. Glenn Kessler picks apart Obama’s Kansas speech yesterday in his piece entitled “Obama’s Kansas speech: some suspect facts“. First he quotes the president;

I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory. Remember in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history. And what did they get us? The slowest job growth in half a century.

I hate when people say “I mean” – if you were clear in the first place, you wouldn’t have to point out what part of your droning is the part where you explain what you mean.

So Kessler starts picking that paragraph apart by pointing out that the so-called Bush tax cuts (I prefer to call them the Lilyea Tax Cuts because that’s the only reason I voted for Bush in 2000) weren’t the “most expensive tax cuts in history” from the stand point of the government. and then he gets to the meat;

That are many factors that affect job growth, and it is silly to directly link the 10-year-old tax cut to today’s job growth — just as it is silly to claim that Bill Clinton’s tax increases resulted in a gain of 23 million jobs.

Kessler neglects to mention that the “slowed job growth” in the later half of the Bush Administration occurred during a period of full employment. How are you going to grow jobs when everyone who wants to work is working? Well, besides throw open the borders.

But how much of a liar do you have to be when the Washington Post takes the side of George W Bush over their guy? Well, I guess we know now.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden